Assistant Professor
Systematic Entomology,
Graduate School of Agriculture,
Hokkaido University,
Sapporo, 060-8589 Japan

Research interests

• Morphology, phylogeny, biogeography and taxonomy of psocids ("Psocoptera")
• Morphology and higher systematics of Paraneoptera, or hemipteroid insects
• Origin and evolution of lice

• Yoshizawa, K. 2004. Molecular phylogeny of major linages of Trichadenotecnum and a review of diagnostic morphological characters (Psocoptera: Psocidae). Systematic Entomology (in press). (abstract/data)
  
• Yoshizawa, K. & Johnson, K. P. 2003. Phylogenetic position of Phthiraptera (Insecta: Paraneoptera) and elevated rate of evolution in mitochondrial 12S and 16S rDNA.Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution29: 102-114 (abstract/data)
  
• Yoshizawa, K. & Saigusa, T. 2003. Reinterpretations of clypeus and maxilla in Psocoptera, and their significance in phylogeny of Paraneoptera (Insecta: Neoptera). Acta Zoologica, Stockholm84: 33-40 (abstract)
  
• Yoshizawa, K. 2002. Phylogeny and higher classification of suborder Psocomorpha (Insecta: Psocodea: "Psocoptera"). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society136: 371-400. (abstract/data/errata)
  
• Yoshizawa, K. & Saigusa, T. 2001. Phylogenetic analysis of paraneopteran orders (Insecta: Neoptera) based on forewing base structure, with comments on monophyly of Auchenorrhyncha (Hemiptara).Systematic Entomology26: 1-13. (abstract/data)
  

Complete List of Publications (contains Japanese characters)
Curriculum Vitae
Checklist of Japanese Psocoptera. (Latest update: Jul. 9, 2004)
Data files presented in Yoshizawa's publications.
Contact
Japanese version

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